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A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…
A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twice ...A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twisse ...
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crook, 1646
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › Question 5: The Fifth Doubt.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The twelfth is out of 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16. And the Lord God of their fathers sent unto them by his Messengers, rising early and sending, for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of God rose against his people, and till there was no remedy. I do not deny but that it was in their power not to misuse the Prophets, not to mock his Messengers, but do you not think, that amongst these naughty figs, some were nothing so bad, and yet did not the wrath of God come upon them as well as upon others.
The twelfth is out of 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16. And the Lord God of their fathers sent unto them by his Messengers, rising early and sending, for hee had compassion on his people, and on his habitation. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, untill the wrath of God rose against his people, and till there was no remedy. I doe not deny but that it was in their power not to misuse the Prophets, not to mock his Messengers, but doe you not think, that amongst these naughty figges, some were nothing so bad, and yet did not the wrath of God come upon them as well as upon others.
Again, consider, what of all this; yet if they had repented, had not their foulest sins hereupon been done away? so that for want of repentance, the wrath of God brake forth against them. Now why do you not as well infer herehence, that they ⟨p. 221⟩had power to repent, and so to seek after the Lord, and find mercy from him?
Again, consider, what of all this; yet if they had repented, had not their foulest sins hereupon been done away? so that for want of repentance, the wrath of God brake forth against them. Now why doe you not as well infer herehence, that they